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Gilad Atzmon thoughts and music

May 3, 2026, 04:28 AM

Can the World Survive Israel?

On the day Iran shot down one F-15E and one A-10, it also confirmed that it had turned more than 160 unmanned aircraft into a pile of wreckage on the ground.

This represents a complete and systematic failure of American/Israeli aerial doctrine. It means that Iran maintains air defense and manages to protect its skies wherever it matters—over cities, energy infrastructure, the petroleum industry, nuclear assets, and more.

Meanwhile, it is the U. S. military and Israel that have completely failed to protect the skies above their own heads. The entirety of American bases in the region have been wiped out by Iranian ballistic missiles. The Gulf's most strategic assets are now subject to Iranian mercy, and when it comes to the global arch monster: Israel- it is subject to a constant flow of Iranian ballistic fire. The Israelis have lost their ability to intercept anything. It looks as if Israel has given up on trying to protect its cities and assets, most likely because it is running very low on Arrow-3 missiles.

As things stand, America is desperate for a ceasefire and is endlessly searching for an exit strategy. The Iranians are not helping. Iran wants America out of the region. Furthermore, Iran's backers want to see America on its knees globally, and they are likely to succeed.

When it comes to the Jewish State, the situation is more complicated. Israel can see that this war may well be its last. It can see that it is being blamed for the current global energy catastrophe. It can see the prospect of the USA escaping the battle with its tail between its legs, leaving the Jewish state alone with Iran in a position of superiority.

If this war was initially about the survival of the Iranian regime, just a few weeks in, it is now the survival of the Jewish state that is hanging by a thread.

The only thing to bear in mind in this regard is that Israel is a nuclear superpower driven by a Judaically inspired genocidal and suicidal ethos.

The Israeli zealot messianic leadership is comforted by the thought of going down with the whole of humanity—also known as the Samson Option. If there was ever hope of dismantling this cancerous entity in a harmonious, peaceful manner, that hope is unlikely to materialize.

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May 3, 2026, 04:28 AM

Why Iran holds back?

Don’t want to upset any of you, but it’s important for me to mention that, as of now, the damage to Israel’s infrastructure is minimal. They still have water in their taps and electric power running in their walls. Their bridges are intact, their leaders are alive. Cluster missiles have a significant morale effect, of course, but consider that the Hebrews are a manic-depressive collective, they will very quickly slip back into their usual hubris mode.

Why Iran refrains from hitting the Jewish State hard is an open question. Assuming that Iran possesses the capability to strike the Jewish State where it really hurts, and simply refrains from doing so, I can offer a few possible reasons:

1. For Iran, the destruction of Israel is a secondary objective. It sees American presence in the region as a core existential threat. Iran believes, therefore, that destroying America, its regional allies, its military presence in the region, and the petrodollar are Iran’s primary objectives. These objectives align with Iran’s backers. Once the U. S. is out of the way, Israel could be next.

2. The Jewish State has proven to be both genocidal and suicidal. This combination of characteristics makes the Jewish State a very dangerous element to deal with. If I am correct, Iran then chooses to slowly break the Israeli spirit. Earlier today I heard an Israeli on N12 news say, 'Once they open Ben Gurion Airport, everybody will leave. No one will stay to turn the lights off.' This is, obviously, an exaggeration; however, many will warily do whatever they can to leave this madhouse.

3. In an ideal world, Iran would prefer to give back Palestine to its true historic and indigenous owners intact—neither radioactively poisoned nor fully destroyed. They would love to return the land to its people with the power stations, refineries, and desalination plants.

4. The Iranians are. Obviously, the adults in the room. They see themselves as a showcase of an Islamic political system. Unlike the Jewish State, which does very little except give Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness a horrid reputation for centuries to come, the Islamic Republic of Iran performs a spectacle of restraint and harmonious sophistication in the face of the lowest of the low.

Gilad Atzmon thoughts and music

May 3, 2026, 04:28 AM

Jewish PRE Traumatic Stress Disorder on Display (PRE TSD)

The Sodomite’s media outlets are in a state of panic warning their Hebrew followers of a possible extensive Iranian ballistic attack during the Passover Dinner on 1st April.

Yet, at the same time, the IDF admits that there is no intelligence that indicates on such a development.

We are dealing with people who are traumatized by an imaginary event in the future. The clinical terms I myself attributed to this classic Jewish phenomenon is PRE TSD.

You wonder why the Hebrews are in panic. Simple, this is exactly what they themselves would do if they were Iranians. They themselves launched their current criminal war at the time of Ramadan. They love to hit their enemies at time of family gatherings, at the mosque, in classes, in theaters, in hospitals..

The Israelis are horrified by the fantasy of Iran ruining their Passover Dinner because they are attributing their own barbarian symptoms to the Iranians. The clinical term that describes this behavior is ‘projection’ (or projecStein in Yiddish).

I gathered many years ago that the more unethical one is, the more horrified one is of the possibility that the Other is equally unethical. This is the vicious cycle that pulls the tribe into endless disasters and preemptive violence.

I am not original here. I believe the Jesus Christ was the first to identify this tribal pattern. Turning the other cheek was his remedy. I guess you know what happened to him next…

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May 3, 2026, 04:28 AM

Zionism vs. Judaism in just a few words!

Zionism was born to replace Judaism , to redefine the Jews as a ‘nation’ as opposed to a ‘religious group.’

The birth of Zionism evolved into a battle between the two. Consequently, Zionism was defeated. Judaism won by integrating the ‘homecoming’ and Ertz Yisrael into Judaism’s core belief (Rabbi Kook).

What we witness in Israel is not Zionism! It is far worse. Israel isn’t just a Jewish State, it is the Judaic State or more precisely, Judaism in practice and it is beyond scary…

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May 3, 2026, 04:28 AM

Jerusalemite Democracy vs. Iranian Meritocracy

If you ask yourself: How is it that Iran comes out on top? Why is China progressing while we are spiraling down? How is it possible that Russia is winning, while NATO which promised us an easy win in Ukraine, has been proven to be a comical military force?

Meritocracy vs. Democracy is my short answer.

Meritocracy is often defined as a system, organization, or society in which people are awarded power, positions, and rewards based on their abilities, talent, and effort , rather than based on their class, wealth, family connections, or other unrelated factors.

I tend to define meritocracy as a system in which the right people are doing the right jobs. This is what we see in Iran, China, and Russia.

This is the complete opposite of what we witness in Western democracy. The primary reason is obvious: "the masses" are not particularly known to be clever or gifted. Accordingly, letting the masses decide who may lead them is problematic.

But this is only the first obstacle. Lobbying, interest groups, think tanks, and wealth paralyze democracy and guarantee its failure. It turns democracy into a powerful tool in the hands of the privileged.

The international/global Israeli lobby groups exemplify the above. They make democracy impossible.

AIPAC, for instance, is funding both American parties, and even channeling support to both presidential candidates simultaneously. At the same time, Miriam Adelson puts her money on Trump. Haim Saban takes care of the Democratic Party's needs.

We see the same dynamic in Britain with Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel. You won't be surprised to find out that Reform Friends of Israel is already very active.

The catastrophic failure of Western democracy and The English speaking in particular is shining right now. We witness America being pushed into an Israeli war that goes against its national interests. We witness a low-life American president operating like an Israeli lapdog. We look at Britain and see the PM zigzagging desperately, trying to present a position that will serve the nation that voted him in—but he knows that upsetting the strongest lobby on the land will turn him into the next Corbyn.

Modern democracy was born as a fake project. It was there to make us believe that the mess we live-in is what we voluntarily inflicted upon ourselves. By now, every Western person can see who puppeteers this political farce…

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May 3, 2026, 04:28 AM

Organology out soon https://youtu.be/aZY7DmmWfg4?si=QNjJ5ZYIaIQPWI3O

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May 3, 2026, 04:28 AM

Purim, Passover and the war against Iran

Since Israel isn’t just a ‘Jewish State’ (the state of the Jewish people), but has gradually morphed into The Judaic State (a state driven by Judaic religion and spirit), it is crucial to examine the current Israeli-American war in Iran within the context of the Judaic religion.

The criminal war against Iran was launched one day before Purim, the most joyous Jewish holiday, which celebrates the biblical story of a Jewish genocide in ancient Persia. The celebration is inspired by the Book of Esther. It is worth mentioning that the story of Purim has zero historical support; it does not appear in any Persian historical account, yet Jewish people—both religious and secular—celebrate it.

Was the decision to launch the war on Iran a day before the Jewish celebration of a genocide in ancient Persia a coincidence? Was the decision to kill the Supreme Leader in the first air raid a tactical move, or was it inspired by religious sentiment? I will let you ponder these questions.

A month into this war, it is proving to be a catastrophe for its ‘architects’ and the West in general. It signals the long-awaited end of American global hegemony. It may well turn the prime aggressor- ISrael into WASrael.

Yet, from a Judaic point of view, we are just entering another Jewish holiday—or perhaps another ‘commemoration’ of a biblical, genocidal fantasy narrative.

Passover is, of course, a celebration of the Jewish God inflicting ten plagues on Egypt. These plagues should be described as nothing short of WMD and cosmic war crimes, entailing biological warfare of the worst kind. The Biblical plagues, in order, included turning the Nile to blood, frogs, lice/gnats, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn.

The Jewish Passover feast is a celebration of these divine collective punishments. Again, there is zero historical account of such an event ever occurring, but one thing cannot be denied: Jews, both religious and secular, celebrate this narrative of extended mass killing.

More worrying is the thought that they didn’t just invent this genocidal event and celebrate its alleged occurrence; they actually invented the God who inflicted this genocide and have adhered to Him throughout their history.

In light of this religious affinity for genocidal narratives, we shouldn’t be surprised that it was two Jewish scientists (Einstein and Szilard) who initiated the Manhattan Project and a third (Oppenheimer) who built it. The bomb was called at the time ‘The Jewish Bomb’ for a reason. It was also Fritz Haber who devised the idea of gas warfare during WWI. Haber died on his way to Palestine while making Aliyah.

The Jewish State was born in an act of mass ethnic cleansing—the 1948 Nakba—, it then locked the indigenous people of the land in open air prisons and it did not take long before it committed the most documented genocide in human history (Gaza 2023-2026).

The war against Iran, which was declared as a ‘fight against the regime,’ quickly evolved into a war of destruction against the Iranian people. By now, it is impossible not to attempt to understand the Jewish state and its actions in light of the Judaic religion, texts, and culture.

The Passover Haggadah tells the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt. In light of the destruction the Israelites have spread around them, it seems as if the Israelites’ exodus from Palestine is now only a matter of time.

Gilad Atzmon thoughts and music

May 3, 2026, 04:28 AM

It didn’t take them too long to identify that the elephant in the room has been of a kosher nature and for more than a while. If ‘Jewish power’ is a taboo topic within left circles and western Palestinian solidarity groups (they will go as far as discussing ‘Zionist power’), in the American Right no one seems to be afraid of referring to the J word and the tribe’s dominance within American life.

The shift that we see in American Right currently may be way more significant than decades of Western left-leaning Palestinian solidarity for the obvious reason that the American Right and Christian Right have awakened to the true morbid nature of the Jewish State and the theology that made it into what it is. The Left couldn’t have gone through such an awakening as it doesn’t even possess the theoretical/ideological tools to engage with the meaning of Jewish theology or religion in general.

But there is another aspect here that may be very significant. Neither Hamas, nor Hezbollah, the Houthis or Iran could be considered Left-leaning by any form or shape. They are religiously driven and at least, from a Left perspective, are considered Right-wing by nature. It is only natural, therefore, that Right agitators will present a better understanding of the core ideology that inspires (ed) both Ben Gvir and Sinwar.

While I don’t see UK Tommy Robinson supporting Hamas any time soon, we already saw Tucker Carlson lending his platform to the voice of Iran while focusing on some core Jewish issues. Col. Douglas Macgregor is not shy of using the J-word while also presenting Iranian perspectives. Candace Owens is fearlessly putting her finger at the problem. Nick Fuentes is probably the most vocal about the topic. Needless to mention that many do insist that Charlie Kirk lost his life for awakening to the Palestinian cause and the shift to that extent within the American Right.

I am of course a post political person. I was a ‘lefty’ in my early days. I stayed more or less at the same place, I still uphold pretty much the same values, but the Left moved: it became ‘liberal’, progressive and ‘identitarian’. It grew compromised. Being a thinking adult I, long ago, lost interest in any kind of political affiliation with Left or Right but I am fascinated, instead, by the meaning of the political discourse, the questions that it raises and in the answers it fails to deliver.

It is very obvious to me that the Left and the organised Jewish anti-Zionists have betrayed Palestine all along, misidentifying the Jewish theological perspective at the heart of Israel. Was it a deliberate, calculated treacherous act or maybe a result of limited theoretical capacity? This is of course a very interesting question to ponder. However, now may be the last moment for the Left and for Jewish anti-Zionists to finally grasp what is it that drives the brutal eradication of the Palestinian people. It is not a ‘land-grab’ enthusiasm (the and grab is a symptom not the disease), it is not ‘colonialism’ that lacks a ‘mother nation.’ It is not ‘settler colonial’ ideas that fuel the settlers like Smortrich, Ben Gvir and Daniella Weiss. It is not a territorial expansionist zeal. It is the theology. We owe this most obvious acknowledgment to ourselves but more than anyone else to the Palestinians, as they are the current victims of that very theology.

Gilad Atzmon thoughts and music

May 3, 2026, 04:28 AM

What is behind the IDF top prosecutor saga?

The IDF's top prosecutor, General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, is accused of leaking information and videos that expose a horrific story of IDF soldiers torturing and sodomizing Palestinian detainees. The Israeli right has tried to capitalize on the unfolding story, claiming that the general's recent arrest vindicates the soldiers and that the leaked videos were ‘fake.’ However, the trial of the soldiers is proceeding, and the videos have been confirmed as genuine. General Tomer-Yerushalmi is now essentially accused of ‘treason’ for the leak. This affair could have been a classic case of ‘killing the messenger,’ but it is far more complex.

It has become clear that the General was not operating alone. The Israeli police claim to possess WhatsApp group communications involving other high-ranking officers connected to the leaked information. The Israeli press has referenced eight top officers within the IDF prosecution command. The documents were physically leaked by a junior officer within the military prosecutor’s command, who also admitted to the act before the Israeli General Security Organisation (Shabak). It is unthinkable that General Tomer-Yerushalmi would have made the decision to expose the IDF's conduct, consulted other high-ranking officers, and mobilized junior officers without a green light from above. Who could give such a green light? Her direct commander, the Israeli chief of staff (Herzi Halevi), or even the defense minister (Yoav Gallant).

Why would Israel’s supreme military authorities give such an order? The goal would be to prove that Israel ‘has the legal means to prosecute its war criminals’—a message to The Hague that it should stay away. If this theory is correct, General Tomer-Yerushalmi and those who authorized her were driven by ‘patriotic sentiments.’ They believed their actions were ‘good for the Jews.’ Make no mistake, however: I am not arguing that an ethical drive was involved. On the contrary, it was an attempt to push away the world’s supreme court by presenting a false image of ethical accountability. In short, the image of ‘ethical behaviour’ replaces any genuine care for ethical conduct, something that is absent from the state that calls itself the Jewish State.

This is where the General's alleged fake suicide attempt becomes a fascinating development. The IDF's top prosecutor clearly understood what lay ahead. She knows about Israel’s judicial system; until a week ago, she was its head. She realized her case would likely be held behind closed doors under a gag order. The General, I believe, orchestrated the fake suicide attempt to point a finger at those who gave her the green light. She probably apologized to her loved ones for her decision to take her own life, but she must have also stated that she was following orders and operating within her military duties. How can we know this? The Israeli press mentioned that her ‘final note’ contained sensitive statements that cannot be disclosed.

If General Tomer-Yerushalmi were guilty of ‘treason’ as a top-ranking IDF officer, one would expect her to be tried by a military court and face severe punishment. This is clearly not the case. She was arrested by the Israeli police and brought before a civil court. This leads to an interesting question, shouldn’t the general be subject to military trial? First we may have to examine the distinction between civil and military law. In the liberal world, we tend to believe that people are ‘innocent until proven guilty.’ This is not the case in military law, where the organization’s interests supersede those of the individual. Often in the army, an officer will penalize an entire unit for a mistake made by one or two subordinates. Military justice is not inspired by the ‘pursuit of justice,’ let alone ethics, but by the survivability of the system itself.

Gilad Atzmon thoughts and music

May 3, 2026, 04:28 AM

I would argue that General Tomer-Yerushalmi would likely have been vindicated by a military court, as she could have proven she followed orders and served the IDF's interest by presenting the pretence of an ‘active and healthy justice system.’ In a civil court, however, she faces accusations limited to leaking specific documents or lying in court. She will probably admit to this and face the consequences. The verdict would ultimately grant more power to Netanyahu against his weakened opposition.

However, the take-home message is overwhelmingly simple. If General Tomer-Yerushalmi’s actions were motivated by an attempt to push the ICC away by conveying a false image of a capable IDF justice system intolerant of war crimes, then her pursuit and arrest only prove to the world that the ICC must take the most severe measures against what the lawless, morbid entity and its wide range of war criminals.

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Apr 29, 2026, 10:21 PM

Part Two

Palestine Solidarity, Left vs. Right

Jewish ‘Anti’ Zionism for Dummies

After a long deliberation and consideration and tens of thousands of Palestinian children slaughtered in Gaza, the Jewish so-called ‘anti Zionists’ kindly allowed us to use the term ‘genocide’. They even gave us a green light to compare Israel to the 3rd Reich. Yet, they always make sure to set the boundaries of such equations just to insure that we do not look into the Judaic theology that guides Israel. We are allowed to make comparisons with other genocides as long as we 1. Sustain the primacy of Jewish suffering (the holocaust) 2. Make sure that we do not look into the Judaic elements that practically have been shaping the brutality of the conflict.

As far as I can tell, not one Jewish anti Zionist agitator or activist has recently contributed a single insight into the role of Judaism, Judaic texts or Judaic teaching in the context of the Gaza genocide. For the Jewish Left, and the so called Jewish ‘anti’ Zionists, the ‘Zionist’ state is still subject to the hegemony of the ‘Israelis.’ For the Jewish ‘anti’ Zionists the problem with ‘Zionism’ is the ‘occupation’, i.e. a ‘territorial matter’ (echoing the ‘Israelis’, see Part I, link in the 1st comment), ignoring the fact that in reality what we see is a Judaic theological crisis. The anti Zionist Jews will insist that we restrict our criticism to ‘colonialism’, ‘settler colonialism’, ‘apartheid’, basically every possible misleading historical model or term that would divert the attention from the J-word. When they allow themselves to refer to ‘Jewish supremacy’ (as some finally do these days) they will always frame it within the limited context of contemporary ‘Zionism’ or ‘settler colonialism’, as if Jewish supremacy is a recent invention, as if the Jewish problem was born with Zionism. In fact, the so-called ‘Jewish problem’ is as old as Judaism. Bizarrely enough, Zionism, in its early version, was a promise to resolve this problem.

But the Jewish anti Zionists are not alone. They have a battalion of Western Palestinian activists, agitators and academics who are lending their support to this misleading project. Why? Because it is convenient. It saves the trouble of being punished for being inconsiderate towards ‘Jewish sensitivities.’ As things stand, Palestinian activists can only operate successfully once they enjoy the support of the Jewish ‘anti’ Zionists. It is of course an absurd situation in which the solidarity discourse of the oppressed is shaped by the sensitivities of the oppressor.

Western Left isn’t helpful either. As much as it (genuinely) supports the Palestinians and is devastated by the ongoing extermination campaign in Palestine, Left doesn’t know how to deal with essentialism, religion and spirit. Left is a dialectical materialist apparatus, theology for the left is ‘the opium for the masses.’

Interestingly enough, from a metaphysical perspective, the Left discourse in its approach to history is structurally similar to the Judaic philosophy of the Old Testament. Rabbinical Jews do not need history because the meaning of their existence, temporality and historical direction is inspired by their Torah. Jewish history is basically a cycle of recycled inversions of ‘Remember Amalek”. The Left follows a similar paradigm. It recycles its very few materialist models (class war, colonialism, settler colonialism, imperialism, apartheid etc’). Whether they correspond with reality or not is irrelevant. However, doubting their fitness or explanatory power is considered an act of heresy within most if not all Left circles. I let you figure out why…

The American New Right and Gaza

This is exactly where the awakening of the American ideological Right is becoming a very interesting event, for me at least. Right wing are naturally less prone to party politics or any form of correctness.

It didn’t take MAGA prime agitators too long to turn against their leader once they realised that he didn’t actually have any plan to deliver.
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Apr 17, 2026, 10:57 AM

The most crucial understanding at this point is to grasp that the battle we witness within the Jewish state is not of a political nature but over the true essence of the Jewish state, Jewish existence within such a state and the meaning of Jewishness and Judaism in general.

While it is true that Labour Zionism and its vision of Israeliness dominated the Jewish national project until 1977, following the 1967 war Jewish religious nationalist have been constantly gaining power. Their current domination within Israeli politics is now complete to a point that the ‘Israelis’ are becoming a shrinking minority of an infinitesimal nature. The Israeli Labour party that practically transformed  Zionism into a statehood and led the Jewish National project until 1977 has been struggling to make it into the Kenesst. Yet, the human-sacrifice orgy we all witness in Gaza is a direct outcome of the total hegemony of ‘The Kingdom of Judea’ within the Israeli military and politics. Jewish Religious  Nationalist agitators openly, shamelessly  and fearlessly speak about “mass expulsion,” “mass starvation,” “mass murder” “mass rape” and at least in their view they echo their religious teachings.

While in the 1990s the battle between these two competing identities was still seen as undecided, by the early 2000s it came to a closure with an Israeliness’ total defeat. Israel has learned to see itself as ‘The Jewish State’, a state of the Jewish people (as opposed to a state of the Israelis). But it didn’t take long before this state morphed once again, this time into a Judaic State. Israel is now defined by Judaic religious teaching and inspired by Judaic religious texts. The above transition manifests itself in every aspect of Israeli life and this includes Israeli politics in general and Israeli crimes against humanity in particular.

What we see in Gaza is a tragic amplification of the most extreme lethal interpretation of the Judaic precept. Shockingly enough this interpretation of the Judaic call is overwhelmingly popular in Israel but it is also overpoweringly spread amongst Western Jewish institutions.

I am yet to see the ADL, AIPAC, (the British) Labour Friends of Israel or the (French) CRIF calling Israel to stop the Gaza genocide. If anything, what these Jewish organizations, institutions, and lobbies do instead is going out of their  way  to penalize  those who dare apply the word genocide to Israeli actions.

While the analysis I present above is common in Israel and accepted by most left and right commentators, The Palestinian solidarity movement, the Left and most of Western Palestinian activists  pretend to be blind to the true meaning of this Essentiality Clash within the Israeli society. They keep focusing on the Israeli ‘territorial’ objective,  pretending not to see that something way deeper and dark is at play in the ‘Kingdom of Judea.’ It is called theology.

In Part II,  I will delve into the manner in which decades of Palestinian solidarity industry activity was wasted on a desperate attempt not to interfere with Jewish sensitivities by deliberately misdiagnosing the Jewish National Project. By doing so, instead of leading towards a resolution of any kind of the Palestinian plight,  the movement as a whole became a continuation of the problem.

End of Part one.

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Apr 17, 2026, 10:57 AM

Essentialism and the ‘Left’

Part 1

The topic I am about to present to you today may be new to most readers and contributors on this page. In order to fully grasp it  we must first delve into the difference between ‘political difference’ and ‘essentiality clash.’

People, parties, institutions can disagree amongst themselves about the future of their state, its governmental decisions, the distribution of wealth, state’s economic system, state’s defence strategy and so on. These kinds of disagreements fall into the rubric of political differences.

Essentiality Clash is when people, parties and institutions don’t agree amongst themselves  on the fundamental meaning of themselves being together as a society, collective or a state. These events are rare in history and associated largely with Right-wing, conservative and religiously oriented ideologies. Hitler and his party, for instance, upheld a revolutionary  view of the meaning and the essence of Germanic existence. Tommy Robinson and his followers adhere to a perception of meaning of British society (White & Christian) that differs radically from  the common  British tolerant, multicultural self-image. The Islamic revolution in Iran transformed the meaning of Iran as it was precepted until that point in time. The battle over the core meanings is what I refer to as an ‘Essentiality Clash.’

The ‘Israelis’ vs. The ‘Kingdom of Judea’

One mode of understanding  the evolvement of the Jewish nationalist project involves grasping the Essentiality Clash between two competing  Israeli nationalist Jewish views. These two core ideological perceptions attribute completely different meaning to the notion of both ‘the Jewish State’ but also the meaning of being a Jew in such a state.

Over the years, these two competing perceptions  have grown apart and eventually found themselves in a bitter unresolved conflict.

On the pretence of a ‘Left’, ‘secular, and ‘enlightened’ side  of the Israeli political divide we meet  the so called  ‘Israelis’, the ‘left over’ of Labour Zionism. They are the secular new Herbrews who believe that Jews in Palestine are now ‘fact on the ground’. They are there in Palestine because they were promised a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ by the Balfour Declaration. This declaration was reinforced by the UN in 1949. For the ‘Israelis ‘ or the  secular Hebrews , the settlement project in Palestine has always been  a territorial project with territorial objectives. The so called ‘Israelis’  still believe that the Jewish State’s dispute with pretty much everyone in the region is of a territorial nature hence resolvable by means of territorial compromise (e.g. The Oslo Accord, Two States etc).

On the other side of the bitter debate we meet the authentic Right wing religious nationalists. These are people who genuinely believe that the land of Israel was given to them (and them only)  by a God figure (whom they themselves invented).  For them, the occupation of Palestine or even Greater Israel is not a ‘territorial matter,’ it is actually a religious act, a prime Mitzvah. Some political commentators in Israel refer to this right wing forceful collective of zealots as ‘The Kingdom of Judea.’ They see themselves as the true offspring of Biblical Judea.

What we see is, practically, a clash between two rival core essentialist perceptions (‘Israelis’ and the ‘Kingdom of Judea’),   that interpret the meaning  and the essence of the Jewish state in a completely different fashion. The above analysis  may explain to some perplexed witnesses why in the so called ‘anti Netanyahu’  rallies we notice more Israeli flags than people. The ‘Israelis’ insist upon owning the state’s symbols i.e. the flag, the state’s name, etc. But down to it, this battle  is an Essentiality Clash  between ‘Israeliness’ and ‘Judaism.’
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Apr 17, 2026, 10:57 AM

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Divine Intervention:

Just as the situation seems hopeless, God Himself intervenes in a dramatic and supernatural way. Some contemporary commentators may suggest that the transformation of the USA into an Israeli mercenary force and Trump’s decision to deploy America’s strategic bomber fleet in an attempt to accomplish the Israeli mission in Iran was a ‘divine intervention’. But there is one problem with this interpretation;
Israel didn’t win a decisive victory in its 12 day war. It didn’t even win in Gaza.

Most credible military analysts actually insist that Israel is marching towards an inevitable defeat.

In the Biblical Story the victory is not achieved by the Israeli military's might but is a divine act meant to demonstrate God's power and holiness to the entire world.

According to the biblical prophecy, the purpose is not merely a military victory but a profound theological revelation celebrated by a narcissist disturbed God figure (who actually sounds a bit like Trump): “And I will magnify Myself, and sanctify Myself, and I will make Myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the LORD." (Ezekiel 38:23).

In the Hebrew prophecy, the victory sanctifies God's name and ends any doubt about his role in history and His covenant with the Jewish people. It is important to mention all of that so you finally understand why the likes of Ben Gvir and Smortrich insist to prolong the war. In Jewish eschatology, the war of Gog and Magog is a pivotal event that precedes or inaugurates the Messianic Era and turning our one and only planet into a pile of ashes seems to be a necessary act according to their belief.

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We learn from the press that Israel threatens to unleash biblical plagues on Yemen’s Houthis.

https://aje.io/pi7zc9

The Biblical Ten Plagues of Egypt were literally an ongoing genocide committed by the Jewish God deploying WMD - chemical, biological and even climate : Nile turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the death of all firstborn.

In case you still wonder whether ‘Zionism is Judaism’ the answer is in front of you. The Jewish State is inspired and guided by the most radical genocidal Judaic texts. Accordingly Zionism is Judaism in practice and vice versa. The two notions are now intermingled!

But it goes further. The Ten Plagues of Egypt is not exactly an event in history. This Biblical story doesn’t appear in any Egyptian chronicle. It is actually an expression of a genocidal urge on the part of the Old Testament’s ‘God’.

I let you figure out who invented such an evil god and who keeps believing in such a mass killer Deity that wouldn’t have a chance to survive The Hague.

Just in case you are confused by the above, let me sort you out.

I would argue strongly that first were the Jews and it is those early Jews who created a God in their own image. Accordingly, the true Jewish God is the Jew. The Jews believe in the Jew and the Jew believe in the Jews.

This is why Jews can drop their God and stay Jews. This is why Jews can believe in many things. This also why the so called ‘anti’ Zionist Jews want you to combat Zionism but never touch the J word….

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Zionism vs. Jewish State in the eyes of Lacan

One of Golda Meir’s most famous (alleged) quotes reads as follows:

“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.”

Of course this misrepresentation of both ‘Arabs’ and the ‘Jews’ doesn’t agree with the genocidal reality and the barbarian intensity performed by the Jewish State in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Lebanon and the plan for Greater Israel in general.

Needless to mention, the Jewish State’s reaction to 7 October rules out the possibility that there is one drop of forgiveness in the Israelite tribe. And, of course, the repeated images of IDF soldiers and government ministers celebrating the genocide makes it clear that there is an Israeli gratifying element in the act of spreading destruction.

The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan taught us that we often say the complete opposite of what we really think. Today we will utilize Lacan’s insight in an attempt to dissect the transition from Zionism to a Jewish State.

For Lacan ‘Desire is the Desire of the Other’

Our desire is not a simple, biological drive. It is fundamentally alienated or in a constant negotiation with the reality around us.

We learn what to desire by seeing what others desire - in the late 19th century and early 20th the ‘Others’ (or Goyim if you like), desired a nation state.

We desire things not only based on their face value but based on their symbolic value—The Early Zionist didn’t want a state because they desired a state mechanism, a currency, a government or even a military force, they just wished desperately to become ‘People like all other People’.

Most fundamentally, we desire to be desired. We want to be the object of the Other's desire. We want to be recognized as unique, special, and worthy - we want everyone to see that we make the ‘desert bloom’, that we can do it by ourselves, to farm the land, to build machines, to protect ourselves and even be ‘kind’ to our neighbours.

Zionism, as such, was a desperate Jewish phantasy to become ‘the desire of the Other’. Zionism followed a rare political moment in which (some) Jews looked in the mirror and got deeply upset by what they saw. They really wanted to change. To become universally accepted by means of becoming ordinary.

This is exactly the aspiration expressed by Golda Meir above. She doesn’t tell what Jews or Arabs are, she instead tells us how Jews wished to be perceived by the Other. She expressed her desire to be seen as kind and humane.

Surprisingly enough the Zionist agenda indeed worked well for a while. The world was excited by the Zionist project. The Early Zionists vowed to take the Jews away and to make them into an ordinary productive society of enthusiast proletarians (Labour Zionism). The world didn’t pay much attention to the 1948 Nakba crime. It kept admiring israel in 1956 Suez Campaign and even more after the 1967 military victory .

Golda Meir’s quote above suggests to us that at one stage the Israelis themselves bought into the idea that they may have finally become the ‘desire of the other’. In fact, this point in history is the exact end of Zionism as a spiritual movement (the end of political Zionism occurred two decades earlier in 1948). The end of the aspiration to become ‘the desire of the other’ by means of being ordinary (people like all other people) is the moment Israel drifted away from its founding ideology and became the Jewish State—a state that doesn’t ‘desire’ the recognition of the other. It is obsessed, instead, with the celebration of its true Jewish nature to which the current genocide is just one symptom amongst many.

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Gaza Genocide and WW3 in the light of Biblical Gog and Magog Apocalypse.

The Jewish State didn’t invent the notion of genocide nor devise its practice. But it is the first to be caught on camera celebrating, in the open, a campaign of extermination of an entire people. Perplexed, we have been witnessing Israeli government’s ministers calling for the mass starvation and destruction of the whole of Gaza. On a daily basis, we watch IDF’s soldiers spreading selfies of themselves dancing and celebrating the destruction of the indigenous people of the land.

The world stands bewildered
witnessing all of that. Yet, no one dares to explain what is that drives that monstrous behaviour. What is the origin of that lethal enthusiasm enacted by the people who, at the same time, insist upon the rest of us remembering their own suffering?

Needless to mention, our so-called Jewish anti Zionist ‘allies’, who are supposed to be slightly more immersed in Jewish culture and religion, also fail their duty. Instead of helping us grasp the Israeli abnormal behaviour, they make sure we attack all those demi targets: Zionism, colonialism, apartheid etc. They never look into the meaning of the Jewishness of the state that calls itself the “Jewish State.”

It doesn’t take a genius to find out that the human catastrophe that we see in Gaza echoes some of the most vile verses in Deuteronomy:

"When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations... then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy” (Deuteronomy 7:1-2, 5-6)

"However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them…” (Deuteronomy 20:16-18)

Yet, the brutal verses above refer, somehow, to a genocide of a local nature. Something that may explain contextually the Israeli brutality in Gaza, in the West Bank or in Beirut. Yet, there is a greater story here that most of us are shy to look into and for a good reason.

The Jewish State is pushing, in front of us, for World War III. This is not a secret, it isn’t a news item, either. Some geopolitical and military analysts have been arguing that this is the case for more than a while. However, I myself started to notice recently that some rabbis are talking about such a scenario openly. I have now come across rabbis preaching about the necessary apocalypse that will proceed with a messianic redemption.

This apocalyptic scenario is inherent to Judaic religious thought and its origin is in the Biblical Gog and Magog prophecy.

The war of Gog and Magog, described primarily in the Book of Ezekiel (chapters 38-39), is a prophecy of colossal global war that ends, you guess correctly, with a miraculous and decisive victory for the Jewish people and their God.

According to the Jewish tradition based on the Hebrew Bible, the Jews (or more accurately, God fighting for the Jews) win a total and miraculous victory in the war of Gog and Magog. This victory is seen as the final, definitive act of redemption that ushers in the Messianic Age.

The Biblical prophecy describes a massive coalition of nations, led by a figure named Gog from the land of Magog, attacking the land of Israel, which is living in a state of ‘peace and security’.

The Attack: A vast army from the north (often interpreted by contemporary commentators as modern-day Russia, Turkey, Isis or more generally, a confederation of hostile nations) descends upon Israel.

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* Statement from Progressive Jewish Movements: Various groups within Reform, Reconstructionist, and Open Orthodox movements have issued critical statements. For example, Reconstructing Judaism released a statement expressing "profound grief" and "moral outrage" at the mounting death toll, calling for a ceasefire and a political solution.

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